That was the headline in the New York Times this past Monday in its story on the report released by the United Nations regarding the ever-increasing damage that man-made pollution is causing to the environment. The bottom line of the…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-Ed: How Much Is Freedom Worth?
Dr. Glenn Mollette In America we pursue the occupation of our choice. That doesn’t mean we always like our jobs but we can choose to pursue another career or several different careers. We can choose our state, community and house.…
What’s Old Is New
As this is being written, a huge Russian Army is standing ready and poised, at the whim of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, to invade the nation of Ukraine, potentially bringing death and devastation to Europe on a scale not seen…
Guest Op-Ed: We All Face Challenges
Dr. Glenn Mollette Everyone will face insurmountable challenges in life. The price of longevity is heartache, opposition, failures, grief and life events that come out of nowhere. Life is filled with the death of loved ones, financial ups and downs,…
Letters to the Editor
Two Flaws in this Logic To the Editor, I was dismayed to read the glib editorial on the “silver lining to inflation” that posits that it’s a good thing that “the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 have the result…
We Are Numb to the Numbers
With mask requirements being lifted just about everywhere around the country, there is a general sense that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. But as we begin the third year of the pandemic, that is far from being true. The death…
The 1887 Electoral Count Act Must Be Amended
Americans always have taken for granted the sanctity and integrity of our electoral system. For decades, we routinely have sent observers to countries where democracy is a new thing to ensure that those nations conducted their elections on the up-and-up,…
A Silver Lining To Inflation
We saw a report on the news the other night about the effect that inflation is having on food prices thanks to supply chain issues that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report highlighted that inflation is taking a…
Teacher Shortage Was Inevitable
An article in the Wall St. Journal this week highlighted yet another area of a labor shortage in the country that has been fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic: “Burned out teachers are leaving the classroom for jobs in the private…
Pres. Biden’s Supreme Court Pick
There has been criticism from the usual suspects regarding President Joe Biden’s declared intention to choose a Black woman for the U.S. Supreme Court seat to fill that of Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his imminent retirement last week. We’d…